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CVE-2016-4984

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

/usr/libexec/openldap/generate-server-cert.sh in openldap-servers sets weak permissions for the TLS certificate, which allows local users to obtain the TLS certificate by leveraging a race condition between the creation of the certificate, and the chmod to protect it.

Affected products

• Openldap-Servers: all versions

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346120
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346120

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